Agreed, bows are mostly useless in the swamp, and a max upgraded finewood bow does ok in the mountains for drakes. I've never bothered to craft a huntsman bow since my first play through. Also, when you get to the mountains you have all the mats available for Draugr Fang, and you can venture into the mountains before you get the wishbone and mine some obsidian for much better arrows (I tend just to use wood arrows before this point and save my feathers). And if you are lucky you might find an exposed silver vein at the same time... If the huntsman bow didn't use any iron, I'd probably make one; but iron is needed for so many items I am reluctant to use any for something that isn't that useful.